1. “BOVEX” - data exchange between bovine databases
European Commission DG Health and Consumers
Kai-Uwe Sprenger D.1 Lars Skäringer A.4
This presentation does not necessarily represent the views of the European Commission 1

2. Background
Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 requires paper passport at least for movements of bovines between Member States

3. Objectives
Provide a multilateral exchange for electronic passports between national authorities
Verify correctness of transmitted passport data
Link with TRACES for transaction verification (legality and correctness)

4. Accessing BOVEX BOVEX is a webservice, so the protocol is XML
XSD schemas:
Based on 64/432 requirements
Normalised ear tag mandatory (2-character ISO country code, 12 digit ear tag number)
Ear tag normalisation / denormalisation is the responsibility of BOVEX user
Currently, national format ear tag also necessary for full TRACES verification (but optional for pilot phase)
MS access to BOVEX – 2 possibilities:
via SANCO XMLGate file upload interface
via MS provided webservices client program

5. The exchange in action Create / process Process passport data
messages
Process
Store, get
Upload message
Request passports
Data messages (XML)
Passport messages
Status messages
Error messages
Get and store
passport data
Check TRACES
certificate

6. Pilot phase

7. Pilot phase – role of MS BE, LU, DE, AT, IT
Provide test data (1000 animals)
Help educate its personnel in using the exchange
During the pilot phase, make every reasonable effort to use the exchange for all transactions
Provide any remarks, issues, suggestions to EC (SANCO)
Participate in interim and follow-up meetings
Provide feedback for the report and conclusions

8. 2010 Forecast

9. Current status Test data obtained from participating Member States
Development finished, internal tests with mock and actual data
Deployment at Data Centre
Protocol (schemas) available for MS consultation, including WS client sample code (Java)
TRACES check implemented, three modes foreseen for pilot phase:
None: anything goes
Basic: valid certificate for correct destination
Full: Basic + every obtained ear tag must be digitally present in certificate field I.30
Pilot testing can commence very soon